Adjustable window-shade supporter.



UNITED STATES WILLIAM Gr. TEMPLETON, OFOOLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO.

PATENT OFFICE.

ADJUSTABLE WlN-DOW -SH-ADE SUP-PO RTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 629,827, dated August 1, 1899.

' Application filed September 24;, 1898. Serial No. 691,766. (No model.)

To on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIA (Eh-TEMPLE- TON, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Colorado Springs, in the county of El Paso and State of Colorado, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Adjustable Window-Shade Supporters, of which the following is a specification:

My invention'relates to that class of windowshade supporters wherein the shaderoller brackets are secured to a suitable frame having side arms which are adapted to slide up and down in suitable guides, which are provided with suitable catches or stops for securely holding the supporter-frame at any desired point; and the objectof my improvement is to provide guides and stops of more simple and inexpensive construction than those shown and described in my application for a patent for an improvement in adjustable window-shade supporters, Serial No. 688,267, filed August 10, 1898.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front View of a window-frame, showing the guides secured to the casing and the shade-supporting frame in place therein; and Fig. 2 is a side'sectional view along the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in each of the views.

The shade-supporting frame 0 is preferably made of a single piece of wire and has the shade-roller brackets 13 secured at or near the upper ends of the side arms O by soldering or otherwise fastening them securely to the wire, and theside arms of the frame arev adapted to slide freely up or down in grooves D in the guides D, which are secured to the window-casing. The guides D aresimply strips of wood or metal having a longitudinal groove D therein of such size that the side arms 0 may slide freely up or down in them. Instead of notches out in the outer fiange of the guide adapted to catch and hold the outwardly-projecting end of the Wire arm, which I have used heretofore,.nails or pins F are used, which may be driven through the guide and across the groove at desired intervals to act as stops to the downward movement of the supporting-frame in the guides, and they also serve to secure the guides to the windowcasing, as may be seen in Fig. 2. The lower ends of the side arms 0 are bent inwardly,- substantially as shown, and have knobs or handles E on their ends. The horizontal part O is adapted to engage the pins or nails F where they extend across the grooves, and

thus hold the shade-supporting frame securely at such point. The shade-supporting frame is so made that the side arms C have a tend ency to spring apart,thus holding them firmly in the grooves D.

When it is desired to lower the device, the knobs E are grasped and pulled inward until the horizontal arms 0 are clear of the pins F, when the entire frame may be freely low ered. Upon releasing the knobs E the side arms will at once spring apart in position to again engage the pins F. In raising the frame the pins F will force the side arms inward as their lower ends pass them, so that it will not may be placed in the groove D to act as stops,

being secured in place by driving the nails or pins F through them.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a shade-supporting frameand grooved guides adapted to receive the side arms ofsaid frame,of side arms having a tendency to spring apart, beyond parallelism, and pins driven through said guides and across the grooves into the window-casing, said pins serving as stops to the vertical movement of the frame and also to secure the guides to the window-casing.

WILLIAM G. TEMPLETON.

Witnesses: J

' FRANK MoGLiN'rooK,

WILLIAM G. JOHNSTON. 

